bullock
IPA: bˈʊɫʌk
noun
- (archaic) A young bull.
- A castrated bull; an ox.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Burlington County and Ocean County, New Jersey.
- A ghost town in Harding County, South Dakota.
- A community in Lanark Highlands township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
- Ellipsis of Bullock County. [One of 67 counties in Alabama, United States. County seat: Union Springs.]
verb
- To bully.
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Examples of "bullock" in Sentences
- I'm going down to the little paddock for a lesson in bullock driving from Burton.
- Then he called a bullock out of a pasture and petted it and talked with it, and said:
- The bullock is a strange, modest-looking little animal with a hump on its back and crooked horns on its head.
- While the bullock is a constant danger, the show descends into comedy when two dwarf “picadors” enter the ring.
- The thawing wind, a bullock, which is no ploughing bullock — a furious bullock, a destroyer, which with angry horns breaketh the ice!
- A bullock is slaughtered every day for the use of the troops, the officers and high officials being first served; but the animals are small, and the flesh is not like the juicy beef-steaks of English meat.
- A second peon with his lasso gallops after the bullock, and throws his lasso round the hind leg above the hough and rides in a contrary direction to the other horseman, consequently the bullock is stretched between the two horses.
- The monk explained to the interviewer his belief that the bullock was a reincarnated soul and expressed the forlorn hope that Shambo might have been a veterinary surgeon in a previous life, in which case I suppose they think he got his just deserts.
- The high priest having done this, perfumed the sanctuary, returned to the door, took the blood of the slain bullock, and, carrying it into the holy of holies, sprinkled it with his finger once upon the mercy seat "eastward" -- that is, on the side next to himself; and seven times "before the mercy seat" -- that is, on the front of the ark.
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